[Fis] Fis Digest, Vol 22, Issue 27

[Malcolm Dean]

Psychological or otherwise, it is a question of one's Ontology.

All worldviews, without exception, begin in a miracle.

Malcolm

On Jan 23, 2016 12:57 PM, <fis-request at listas.unizar.es> wrote:
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: A Meta(information)- scientific comment (Stanley N Salthe)
>
> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016
>
> As an erstwhile natural scientist (biology) and as a now soi-disant
natural
> philosopher, I agree with Joseph Brenner here:
>
> >this seems to be turning out to be as much a psychological question as a
> physical one.
>
> Such 'objects' as quarks are created by humans within elaborate machines.
> They are artifacts of engineering!  How can anyone really take them
> seriously as natural things?  I would agree that anything upon which so
> much time and money has been/is spent might seem on the face of it to be
> 'real'. I would also agree that these phenomena are potentially important
> in the tech world.  But they are surely not 'natural' even if we must take
> them to be real(ized).
>
> STAN
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